From Fish To Philosopher

This episode furnishes examples of how developments in technology have affected higher education and whether authenticity is compromised as a byproduct of the vast outpouring of published material that has emerged in recent years.

This episode notes how educational practices that went unchanged for centuries more recently have experienced alterations in the form of the introduction of massive open online courses (MOOCs) and the increased presence of adjunct faculty involved in teaching courses.

This episode discusses the role of great apes in health research and how in some ways human well-being is similar to what these animals experience and how the findings have implications across scientific and social-scientific disciplines.

This episode indicates that retractions of articles can occur as a result of error, misconduct, duplicate publication, and plagiarism, along with a description of how some authors guilty of any of these practices have been able to escape detection for lengthy periods of time.

This episode comments on the importance of reliability and validity in the production of published articles in journals and how uncommon it is for many periodicals to publish null findings or exact replications.

This episode discusses the topic of “open access” and the financial challenges that affect publishers, researchers, academic institution libraries, funding agencies, and governments, along with how blogs also serve as a way of disseminating scientific knowledge.

This episode provides an additional look at the many advantages that exist in making journals available in electronic format in ways benefiting faculty members, students, and everyone involved in the academic community. 

This episode indicates how some advocates favor bypassing the formal peer-review process by taking pre-publication papers and exposing them to a community of users to vote their appraisal as a means of enabling readers to decide which manuscripts deserve to be published.

This episode points out that because the Journal of Allied Health encompasses manuscripts about a wide range of health professions, it adds to the importance of using peer reviewers as a means of ensuring that the content of articles is both accurate and relevant.

This editorial discusses the importance of choosing the correct words in titles of articles submitted to the Journal of Allied Health, along with the importance of defining in exact language the terms used in manuscripts.